RiceRocket Posted September 28, 2009 Share Posted September 28, 2009 none ASK a stupid question and you will get a stupid answer - or maybe not. Today is Ask A Stupid Question Day - an event which began in America in the Eighties when students were encouraged to make dumb inquiries of their teachers. On this side of the Atlantic, text service Any Questions Answered (AQA) are asking Brits to come up with nonsensical posers to celebrate the day. They have had some weird and wacky queries to answer in the past. Here are some of the best: What came first - the car or petrol? Petrol existed before cars and was sold as a treatment against lice and their eggs. The first petrol-driven car was invented around the mid-1880s. Why do slugs appear in the front room? Slugs can squeeze themselves under the smallest of cracks such as under doors. Try sprinkling ground coffee around your exterior doors to put them off. How many otters can you fit in a watering can? The average male otter is 40in long, a good size watering can is only around 30in. Common decency forbids forcing the otter inside. Why can't monkeys fly? Monkeys do not have wings and so they cannot fly. If you throw one into the air, this may count as "flying" but AQA does not recommend trying this. What is the value of hitting a cricket ball outside the ground without it bouncing? A batsman who hits a ball directly over the boundary scores six runs. You don't get extra runs for hitting one completely out of the ground, just a huge amount of respect. Does AQA believe there is demand in the entertainment business for a film about biscuits and which do you think would emerge as champion biscuit? Don't steal the idea. AQA thinks a film about which is the best biscuit is a great idea. Perhaps as a stop-motion film. Jaffa Cakes would be the baddies - they aren't biscuits. I like trains. In this day and age anything is possible due to surgery. So, how can I become a train, or just look like one? The simplest way for you to become a train in this day and age is to join the cast of Starlight Express. If you eat all your greens will your hair grow curly? Mum said so. AQA hates to be the one to tell you this, but your mum lied to you. You have to eat your crusts to get curly hair. Alternatively, get a perm. What six-letter word can be made by texting with only one button on a mobile phone? "Deeded" can be typed using just the 3 button. However, AQA argues that "Mmmmmmmmmmm" is acceptable. In an average human life, how much gas will a human expel? The average adult has 14 occurrences of flatulence per day. Total expulsion is about 538ml, making approximately 14,727,750ml of gas expelled in a life time. Hope the biscuit film is in production Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter richards Posted September 28, 2009 Share Posted September 28, 2009 quite a few if you mince them up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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